COUNCIL OF ELDERS ACT NOW-NDC YOUTH CALLS

COUNCIL OF ELDERS ACT NOW-NDC YOUTH CALLS
Worried NDC youth group in Tamale identified as Friends of Democracy,
Development and Continuity has called on the party’s Council of Elders to use
all available internal mechanisms to convince Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings and
Dr. Ekwow Spio Gabrah not to contest the flag bearership congress slated for
July 8 to 10.
The NDC Friends of Democracy, Development and Continuity believe that it is
never too late for the NDC Council of Elders to plead with Nana Konadu Agyemang
Rawlings and Dr. Ekwow Spio Gabrah to rescind their decision and rally their
support behind President John Evans Atta Mills to retain power in 2012.
Seeing that the party could disintegrate after the July congress, the group
warned that the NDC risked losing the 2012 general elections if Nana Konadu
Agyemang Rawlings and Dr. Ekwow Spio Gabrah contest the party’s flag bearership
with President John Mills.
Adam Iddrisu Nbelayim, Secretary to the NDC Friends of Democracy, Development
and Continuity made the call at a news conference in Tamale.
He expressed the group members displeasure about the internal strife between
supporters of the Get Atta Mills Endorsed (GAME) and Friends of Nana Konadu
Agyemang Rawlings (FONKAR) camps for which reason all efforts must be made to
reconcile the feuding factions ahead of the 2012 general elections.
Adam Iddrisu Nbelayim said the Mills-Mahama led NDC administration which
Ghanaians have commended for its sterling performance in the last two and half
deserved another four year term to complete its unfinished Better Ghana agenda
years.
He recounted the construction and rehabilitation of the Tamale Teaching
Hospital, the extension of rural electrification, the construction of feeder
roads, agricultural transformation and the expansion of school infrastructure
nationwide as some of the achievements of the Mills-Mahama led NDC
administration.
According to the NDC Friends of Democracy, Development and Continuity
Secretary, any NDC Presidential candidate for 2016 will find it easy to retain
power based on the legacy of the current government.